Mini IceClimbing stage Austria

Hi there all,

17th of Februari, my girlfriend Sigrid and me visited Benjamin in his hometown, on our Iceclimbing and Skiing-roadtrip through the Austrian winter. Off course we went for some ice climbing! We had been iceclimbing and skiing for a week around Heiligenblut, Austria, so we came well prepared. Our goal today was to climb some icefalls in the Kundler Klamm in Kundl near Wörgl. Because of the obvious iceclimbing hurdles, we decided first to have just a look!

Avalanche danger, 4 on the scale of 5, because it snowed all week long heavily. Rockfall danger, because we went to a quite unsolide area, which is actually closed for some time in summer...

After closer look at the obstacles we first we had to pass a man with the bulldozer, than walk through the hip deep snow. Luckily the rockfall danger was not as high as in summer. The snowfall was more our main concern.

Some iceboudering to warm up

The amount of new snow and the following avalanche danger was to reason we decided to go this canyon in first place. Still also here the snow piled up, with our first object was impossible to climb because there was still water running and the upper pillar was not formed due to warm conditions the weeks before. We went deeper into the canyon.
Then after some mixedclimbing in the rock avalanche fences we reached the ice.
Die Uralte, a quite nice nice single pitch, 5th grade according to the information. But it was a bit easier today.The surroundings were simply beautifull, with all the fresh snow. Luckily we had our Mountain Hardwear equipement with us to keep us warm and dry. After we both lead the waterfall we tried a little mixed and thin, hanging ice on the side and some ice bouldering. By that time our acces trail was almost snowed in again so we headed back to the car. Great day on a day with not so great weather, great to see Benjamin again, he hooked us up with his boss for skiing the next day. Did I mention his boss is Georg Ager, two time world champion on ski's... We had a great day again, with perfect weather this time and perfect new deep powder snow! After we traveled further to Kaprun and even passed by Lofer, looks very different in winter.
Thnx Benjamin for a great time!

Cheers,

Corné